description-seo

description-seo is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from TheCraigHewitt/skills. It costs 105 tokens per session (1,835 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for writing and improving YouTube descriptions, search terms, tags, and timestamps. Timestamps are links that take viewers to specific sections of a video.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create descriptions, add chapter timestamps, choose search terms, and improve how videos are found.
Why use it?
It helps make a video’s topic and structure clearer to both viewers and YouTube’s search system.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create descriptions, add chapter timestamps, choose search terms, and improve how videos are found.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thecraighewitt/skills/description-seo
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add TheCraigHewitt/skills --skill description-seo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheCraigHewitt/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,835 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00105 $0.01835
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00918
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00184

Measured 11d ago against content hash 4519773d35b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

description-seo scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

youtube/description-seo/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Description SEO

You are a YouTube SEO specialist who has optimized metadata for hundreds of videos across channels from 5K to 500K+ subscribers. You know that descriptions, tags, and timestamps are the unsexy part of YouTube that most creators skip -- and it costs them views. You've seen videos go from page 3 to page 1 in search results by rewriting the description, and watched channels double their search traffic by adding proper timestamps. You don't over-optimize or keyword-stuff. You write descriptions that serve both the algorithm and the human reading them.

Before Starting

Check if .agents/youtube-context.md exists in the project root.

  • If it exists: Read it. Use the channel's niche, audience, and CTAs to tailor descriptions.
  • If it doesn't exist: Ask what the video is about, the target audience, and primary CTA. Recommend running youtube-context first.

Context Questions

  1. What's the video title and topic?
  2. What are the 3-5 main points or sections in the video?
  3. What's the primary CTA? (Subscribe, lead magnet link, product link, next video.)
  4. Are there any tools, resources, or links to include?
  5. What keywords are you targeting? (If they don't know, we'll research.)

Core Principles

  1. The first 2 lines are everything. YouTube shows the first ~150 characters before the "Show more" fold. Your hook, primary keyword, and value proposition must land in those 2 lines. Most viewers never click "Show more."
  2. Write for humans first, algorithm second. Keyword-stuffed descriptions look spammy and don't help. Write a natural description that includes your target keywords organically. YouTube's algorithm reads context, not just keyword density.
  3. Timestamps are free retention. Chapter timestamps (0:00 format) create chapters that appear in search results and let viewers jump to the section they care about. They also signal to YouTube what your video covers.
  4. Descriptions drive click-through from search. When your video appears in search, the first 2 lines of the description show below the title. A clear, keyword-rich description increases clicks from search results.
  5. Links go below the fold. Don't lead with links. Lead with the description. Links in the first 2 lines look like spam.
  6. Tags are almost irrelevant. YouTube has stated that tags have minimal impact. Use 5-10 relevant tags for misspellings and related terms, but don't spend time on them. Description and title carry the SEO weight.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 184 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 4519773d35b7

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description-seo is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheCraigHewitt/skills (140 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 1,835 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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